Charles E W Bean, Diaries, AWM38 3DRL 606/69/1 - January 1917 - Part 3

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Film
Tanks.
G Ities.
Gordons digging.
LaBoiselle -
Irish Dossing up.
?2.  Reel 4    Titled.
Aust wd at Becourt.
w ambulance. going in.
Aust [[shorthand]]
Sending away from Becourt.
Aus (  Chalk Pit, unloading
        (  water from horses.
        (  Flying Pig
Aust The road to Pozieres.
Brit tanks move off.  Black Out
(from ancre film).
Tanks in action over trenches.

Film

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titled.
[[Scoletrumm?]] waiting to
go over.
(Ancre film)
French 75s in [[atking?]] barrage.
Guns following infy - 
(dragging them out)
Enemy shell attack
Pioneers going out.
Reel 5.
Pozieres Titeled.
Austr. resting in
Sausage Gully.
Horses in crater Sausage Gully.
Brdwood on horse.
In wood - talking to men.
The boys from down under.
'Men in German helmets 

Film
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The Leicesters enjoy a sunbath.
Suicide Corner.
Aust men going in. & out.
Horse Arty Brit going in.
8 in Hows firing.
Bombt. of ? Pozieres
8 in hows.
Bombt.
"Shells shells & more shells for
guns. ...
(Loading big & small shells into
limbers.)
Big shells going up on lorry.
West Indians unloading.
/// Guns of every calibre firing night & day
Our bombt. of P.
More guns.
Our bombt.
Gun & hows.
Austr. watching bombt of P.
More guns.

Film
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Innocent looking hayricks.
Bombt of P. (not ours).
Guns
Bombt of P. (ours)
Guns & Trench mortar.
6 in hows.
Our bombt.
Guns.
Austr. field bty.
Austr How 4.5.
Our bombt.
A near thing for one of our
convoys.

Film
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1   Reel 6th.
Londons Pets.
Guards moving up.  Brit.
Monster 12 in gun ...  Brit.
Cavalry move up.  Brit.
Rest for man & Beast  Brit.
N.Z entraining
Panorama of ground
Fricourt wood
NZs detrain
Cheering highland Terriers.
Another Bde of Guards marching in.
(nothing Australian)

Film
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Reel 7.
( Official Pictures )
( Attack of the Tanks. )
Rly brings stone to repair damage.
Dumping metal.
Result of poor Roads.
Getting a gun out.
“All together
Team of 16 horses.
( Troops being pushed forward.
( III Austr Divn being marched up.
( (near Conlery).
( III A rest by roadside Australians
( The Premier visits the front (Brit)
Landing xx
Army HQ.
Flying ground.
Durham Light Inf. going in.
The Queens resting & marching off.

Film
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Observation Balloon.
Collapsible Reservoirs charged
with gas.
Taken to the nest.
Gas forced into balloon.
Observers ascend.
Break. Reel 8.
In case of accident descend by parachute.

Film
Fag Ends
? duplicate.
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Reel 8. 9
Durham Light Inf on Road.
Shells being packed near a mill.
Firing 12 in gun.
Reel 9. break.
Australian gunners firing in
German helmets.
( Firing 4.5 Hows.
Aeroplane Mauritius xxx
Aeroplanes. in air.
Reel 9. 10
Australians at Becourt
( Dressing station.
( Kapp handing out books to
( wounded prisoners
( Handing back Iron X., Purso.
( . Photos.
( Examining prisoners

Film
Add.
duplicate.!!
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( Sending Prisoners away.
( Prisoners arriving & being sent off.
Aust troops (sham) cheering 
start.  King.
Highland Regiment coming out
along road.
NZ watching Highlanders pass.
Reel 10 break
( Australians in Sausage 
( Gully with papers.
Road making (German Prisoners)
German guns.
D Brit Inf going in.

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Photos of which
plates have to be
got from 
British
1034 marching in new mode.  Topical
980 a collection of little
huts CP.
901 S&G. view of of battlefield with [[shorthand]] all
[[grissled?]] in the background
893 Stand post on German trenches
895 nomansland in front of trenches. Fresh shell bursts.
894 view of the battleground.
900 Comfort in a  [[shorthand]]

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Cooks.
M’Cay.
Illingw^th.
AIF HQrs.  Leave a/c
See Ross
Tell Howse abt
Monday. 
4.30.
Shopping.
W.O. Graves Registn
& Picture Censoring.
Have they got my
article?
Tele re Hughes
Pay
[[Finanters?]]